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Man killed by gunman in Hinesville

HINESVILLE - Local police are investigating the city's first homicide of the new year.

An unidentified man whom police described as being in his 20s was fatally shot Tuesday night at Hinesville's Alston Ridge mobile home park on Kelly Drive.

Hinesville Chief of Detectives Thomas Cribbs said officers responded to a report of shots fired sometime after 6 p.m. near the park's lot 68. When the police arrived, they said they found a man on the ground suffering from mortal gunshot wounds.

Cribbs said a witness saw two men wearing white T-shirts fleeing from an adjacent lot. Police did not know whether the two men were linked to the slaying.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Hinesville police at (912) 368-8211.